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<td align=center>The<br><font size=7>INGRAM</font><br>softbot project<br>
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Ingram is an INformation GatheRing Agent called ingraM.  The user can specify the information 
he or she in 
terms of a database query and Ingram will try its best to use all kinds of deviated methods
not unlike those in the <!WA1><!WA1><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/ctkwok/inethunt.html">Internet hunt</a> to obtain the information.
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Ingram is different from many other similar projects in many ways.  Ingram is designed to
be small,  efficient and distributed,  so that eventually it can reside on the web as a
<!WA2><!WA2><a href="http://java.sun.com">java</a> application.  Dream on.
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At the core of Ingram is a forward chaining planner Occam.  Occam is novel in that it 
performs heuristic search on database objects.  Occam is a joint work with 
<!WA3><!WA3><A HREF="http://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/weld.html">Dan Weld</a>,  
and recently we co-authored a <!WA4><!WA4><a href="ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ai/tr96-01-04.ps.gz">paper</a> on Occam that was accepted to appear in AAAI96.  
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Publications:
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<li><!WA5><!WA5><a href="ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ai/tr96-01-04.ps.gz">Planning for Information Gathering (Technical Report)</A>
<li><!WA6><!WA6><a href="ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ai/occam-aaai96.ps">Planning to Gather Information (Accepted to AAAI 96)</A>
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Coming attractions:  we're going to model the following sites:
        <DT><H3 FOLDED ADD_DATE="799813594">Modeling</H3>
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            <DT><!WA7><!WA7><A HREF="http://www.directory.net/dir/directory.html" ADD_DATE="820399080" LAST_VISIT="815387451" LAST_MODIFIED="815387451">Commercial Sites Index; Browse</A>
            <DT><!WA8><!WA8><A HREF="http://futfan.com/home.html" ADD_DATE="818928137" LAST_VISIT="818928109" LAST_MODIFIED="818928109">Future Fantasy Bookstore - Home Page</A>
            <DT><!WA9><!WA9><A HREF="http://www.home.msn.com/access/geograph.htm" ADD_DATE="820399080" LAST_VISIT="818484463" LAST_MODIFIED="818484463">Geographical and Weather</A>
            <DT><!WA10><!WA10><A HREF="http://www.best.com/~ii/internet/faqs.html" ADD_DATE="818062528" LAST_VISIT="818062473" LAST_MODIFIED="818062473">Infinite Ink's Finding, Writing, & Distributing FAQs</A>
            <DT><!WA11><!WA11><A HREF="http://lcweb.loc.gov/" ADD_DATE="820399080" LAST_VISIT="814748447" LAST_MODIFIED="814748447">Library of Congress World Wide Web Home Page</A>
            <DT><!WA12><!WA12><A HREF="http://www.netspace.org/cgi-bin/lwgate" ADD_DATE="816270291" LAST_VISIT="817431839" LAST_MODIFIED="817431839">Mailing List WWW Gateway</A>
            <DT><!WA13><!WA13><A HREF="http://www.npr.org/" ADD_DATE="820399080" LAST_VISIT="815376538" LAST_MODIFIED="815376538">NPR Online</A>
            <DT><!WA14><!WA14><A HREF="http://www.niyp.com/" ADD_DATE="820399080" LAST_VISIT="815389636" LAST_MODIFIED="815389636">NYNEX Interactive Yellow Pages - Home Page</A>
            <DT><!WA15><!WA15><A HREF="http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/netfind.html" ADD_DATE="817016425" LAST_VISIT="817016104" LAST_MODIFIED="817016104">Netfind Search</A>
            <DT><!WA16><!WA16><A HREF="http://www.home.msn.com/access/ref.htm" ADD_DATE="817762163" LAST_VISIT="817762159" LAST_MODIFIED="817762159">Reference</A>
            <DT><!WA17><!WA17><A HREF="http://www.buttle.com/tel/" ADD_DATE="820399080" LAST_VISIT="817568084" LAST_MODIFIED="817568084">Telephone Directories On The Web</A>
            <DT><!WA18><!WA18><A HREF="http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html" ADD_DATE="820399080" LAST_VISIT="816515878" LAST_MODIFIED="816515878">The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue</A>
            <DT><!WA19><!WA19><A HREF="http://www.wordsworth.com/" ADD_DATE="820399080" LAST_VISIT="814862101" LAST_MODIFIED="814862101">Virtual WordsWorth -- The Complete Discount Bookseller Home Page</A>
            <DT><!WA20><!WA20><A HREF="http://www.wsmv.com/news/news_m.html" ADD_DATE="820399080" LAST_VISIT="815387445" LAST_MODIFIED="815387445">WSMV InfoSource -- News Master Page</A>
            <DT><!WA21><!WA21><A HREF="http://www6.internet.net/cgi-bin/getNode?node=1&source=NS2&session=2101316" ADD_DATE="820399080" LAST_VISIT="815557135" LAST_MODIFIED="815557135">Welcome to ISN</A>
            <DT><!WA22><!WA22><A HREF="http://www.netlib.no/netlib/master/readme.html" ADD_DATE="820399080" LAST_VISIT="816450551" LAST_MODIFIED="816450551">netlib home page</A>
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Here are some of the related systems:
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<li><!WA23><!WA23><A HREF="http://www.research.att.com/orgs/ssr/people/levy/">Information Manifold</a>
<li><!WA24><!WA24><a href="http://www-db.stanford.edu/tsimmis/tsimmis.html">TSMMIS</a>
<li><!WA25><!WA25><a href="http://www.isi.edu/sims"> SIMS</a>
<li><!WA26><!WA26><a href="http://rombutan.mit.edu/context.html"> The Context Interchange Project</a>
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Here are some other softbots we have in UW:
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<li><!WA27><!WA27><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/softbots/www/softbots.html">Rodney</a>
<li><!WA28><!WA28><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/ctkwok/simon-manual.html">Simon</a>
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<hr><!WA29><!WA29><img align=bottom left src="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/ctkwok/me/kaneda.gif"><!WA30><!WA30><a href="mailto:ctkwok@cs.washington.edu">Cody Kwok</a>  <i>Last modified Feb 1</i>
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